Less than a week af­ter warn­ing that non-per­form­ing sec­re­taries would be re­moved, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says his ad­min­is­tra­tion will ex­pand To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) di­vi­sions from sev­en to as many as 11.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is stand­ing by her cri­tique of in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors, fur­ther ques­tion­ing the in­tegri­ty and im­par­tial­i­ty of the nine-mem­ber bench.

The board of Laven­tille Des­per­a­does Steel Or­ches­tra has moved to for­mal­ly dis­tance the or­gan­i­sa­tion from pub­lic state­ments made by board mem­ber, Sen­a­tor David Nakhid, trig­ger­ing a pub­lic dis­pute that has now es­ca­lat­ed to le­gal ac­tion.

Child pro­tec­tion and ad­vo­ca­cy groups have wel­comed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ac­knowl­edge­ment that stronger mea­sures are need­ed to pro­tect chil­dren on­line, but cau­tion that an out­right ban on so­cial me­dia would be too ex­treme.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced Wednes­day that he was scrap­ping his planned tar­iffs on eight Eu­ro­pean na­tions in an ef­fort to force U.S. con­trol over Green­land, pulling a dra­mat­ic re­ver­sal short­ly af­ter in­sist­ing he want­ed to get the is­land “in­clud­ing right, ti­tle and own­er­ship.”

An in­mate who scaled the perime­ter wall of the Port of Spain Prison on Wednes­day morn­ing was back in cus­tody with­in min­utes, af­ter of­fi­cers swift­ly tracked him down just streets away from the fa­cil­i­ty.

The Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment has be­gun mul­ti-agency plan­ning for Car­ni­val 2026 fol­low­ing a stake­hold­er meet­ing held to­day at Queen’s Hall, Port of Spain.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go pro­vid­ed dis­as­ter re­lief as­sis­tance to a fam­i­ly af­fect­ed by a fire at Li­ons Gate, En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, on Wednes­day. The as­sis­tance was de­liv­ered through the Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices.

Four men have ap­peared be­fore High Court Mas­ters on charges of house break­ing and lar­ce­ny aris­ing from re­ports made with­in the last 48 hours.

Three sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and two firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the Cen­tral and West­ern Di­vi­sions on Tues­day.

In­ter­na­tion­al law lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Dr Safiya Ali, says while small­er Caribbean states may feel tempt­ed to align with pow­er­ful ac­tors such as the Unit­ed States, re­cent US mil­i­tary ac­tions in the re­gion un­der­score the need for stronger re­gion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty ground­ed in in­ter­na­tion­al law and na­tion­al sov­er­eign­ty.

Iran­ian state TV on Wednes­day is­sued the first of­fi­cial death toll from re­cent protests, say­ing 3,117 peo­ple were killed, while the for­eign min­is­ter is­sued the most di­rect threat yet against the Unit­ed States af­ter Tehran’s bloody crack­down, warn­ing the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic will be “fir­ing back with every­thing we have if we come un­der re­newed at­tack.”